Nearly four thousand Yahoo employees sat and waited for Marissa Mayer to explain herself. It was around ten thirty on Thursday morning, November 7, 2013. Some of the employees, those in Yahoo’s Santa Monica and New York offices, sat at their desks watching a video feed on their computer monitors. At Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, just off US 101 in the heart of Silicon Valley ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - BYD Co Ltd <002594.SZ><1211.HK>, the Chinese carmaker backed by Warren Buffett, said on Wednesday its chairman has increased his stake in the company and may buy more shares as a sign of confidence following the stock's record slump last week...

PARIS (Reuters) - Thales' top shareholders are at odds over its plan for a dual leadership structure that may change their influence at the French defense electronics maker, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday...

PARIS (Reuters) - Alstom shareholders on Friday backed with 99.2 percent of votes the French engineering group's plan to sell most of its power equipment business to General Electric and refocus on its smaller rail arm...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apollo Global Management is nearing a buyout of PetSmart Inc for about $8 billion in what would be the largest leveraged deal for a U.S. company this year, Bloomberg reported on...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's securities industry watchdog CVM fined late on Tuesday the pension fund owned by workers of state-controlled oil producer Petróleo Brasileiro SA for participating on the election of board and fiscal council members that was reserved only for minority shareholders...

LONDON (Reuters) - British insurers Aviva and Friends Life said on Tuesday their boards have agreed the terms of their recommended all-share merger, creating a market leader with 16 million life insurance customers...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two directors of HSBC's British business have expressed concerns about new rules that can result in jail sentences for senior bankers, but only one has resigned, and that was mainly due to extra demands on his time, the bank said...

(Reuters) - Apollo Global Management LLC is in advanced talks to acquire Presidio Inc in a deal that could value the information technology consulting company at close to $1.3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> on Wednesday announced a $2 billion share buyback plan, its first since 2007, following investor calls for higher returns against a backdrop of rapidly declining profits...

So, it looks like George Soros just invested $500 million with Bill Gross. In an announcement on its website, Janus announced that Quantum Partners, a private investment vehicle managed by Soros Fund Management, will invest $500 million in an account to be managed by Bill Gross...

(Reuters) - Dollar General Corp may need to divest more than 4,000 stores to win approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for its acquisition of Family Dollar Stores Inc , the New York Post reported, citing two sources close to the situation...

Irish pharmaceutical company Actavis buying Allergan for for $219 per share in a cash and stock deal valued at $66 billion. For months, Allergan has worked to fend off a hostile bid from Canadian pharmaceutical company Valeant and activist investor Bill Ackman. All of Ackman and Valeant's offers had been rejected. The most recent bid for the Botox-maker was $53 billion. Even though Valeant ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government wants former PSA Peugeot Citroen head Philippe Varin to succeed Pierre Blayau as the head of the board of state-owned nuclear group Areva , a source at the economics ministry told Reuters on Friday...